Holder for safety-razor blades.



G. TOBORG. HOLDER FOR SAFETY RAZOR BLADES.

APPLIGATION FILED JUNE 27,1908.

Patented Jan. 19. 1909.

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ed handle with a pair of UNITED s'rArr s PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE "ros'oao, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

KQIIDER son snarratazon mamas.

To all whom it may concem:

Be it known that I, Gnonos Tonono, of Chico o, in the State of Illinois, have invent certain new and useful Im rovements in Holders for Safety-Razor, hides, of which the followin is a specification.

My invention re ates to improvements in devices for holdin and manipulating the thin two-ed ed bla es of safet razors for strapping t e sameand the 0 jects oi m first, to provide a roun late-like jaws, adapted to sprin apart slig tl ,-and to embrace a razor bfiide and a tu ula-r slotted clamp, adapted to lit over the rear edges of the aws; second, to provide a relatively fixe 'aw, and a, relatively movable jaw, the latter ing preferably designed to be swung.

aside from over the face of the fixed jaw, at

an angle to the axis of the handle, and back to normal, for insertinlg theblade; and third, to provide the movab e jaw with a ivoted, slotted clamp, adapted to hold both t e jaws together a on the lads, in conjunction with a thumb ever arranged for working the hand e in the hand. The, movable jaw is also referably so arranged, relative to the hand e, that it can be conveniently swung aside and back I as above stated, with the thumb, while hiding the handle in thehand. I' attain these objects by'the construction illustrated in the accompaiiying drawings in which v a Figure 1 is a top view of a holder of the class mentioned containing my invention, the

with and fit the ho es as usual same being shown ashavin stro ped clamped therein. siml ar view with the parts 0 n andin rimary position to have abladl; at in. Fig. 3, 1s an enlarged cross section a the line 3 3 of Fig. 1.

Similar letters marked on the dra'wings refer to similar arts in the several views.

A is the roun ed handle Tmade, referably, of wood, and designed to roll free y between the thumb and fingers of the user in turning the blade on the strop in the usual manner of strop in B is t e aw which is fixed relati'vel c to a blade to be ig. 2, shows a A the handle and it'complrises a steel plate aving a broadrpart, of t e lerllgth of the blade, and provide with ins b a a fited to register blade nt'the wnter line thereof, and an extension or narrower part C, terminating in Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 87, 1.08. Serial No. 440,637.

with the thumb while holding the y'made 1n the' Patented Jan. 19, 1909.

| an ordinary tang (not seen) for securing said aw B through its said extension to the hand e A in a usual manner.

D is the movable jaw comprising a similar steel plate havin a correspondmgrbroad part provided witli holes (l w iich are adapted to re ister with the pins 6 of thefixed aw, an an extension, or narrower art, it which is pivoted at e to the part of the fixed jaw, close to the adjacent end of the handle, so that said part E shall be within the convenient reach of the thumb of the 'hand in which the handle is held. The pivot e holds the parts C andE in contact at the ivotal junction, from which they s ring 5 lghtly apart, and the pivot permits 1; 1e movable jaw to be swung from and back over the face of the fixed jaw, just clear of the pins 1) and in registration therewith bv means of the thumb placed on the part outside of the pivot 0, while holding the handle in the hand,

The clamp F consists, preferably, of a tube provided with a lon itudinal slot fextending from end to. en of the tube, and adapted to pass over the rear edges of both tllie jaws when pressed together upon the b ade.

sists of an integral extension from the clamp projected in a straight line coincident with one side of the slot of the clamp, so that said extension may lie tint on the top or outer side ofthe art E of the movable jaw and present the 5 0t opposite to the rear edges of both the jaws and to pass upon or over them when pressed together upon the .razor blade as seen in Fig. 3. The thumb lever is ermunently pivoted at c to the out side of'tlie part E of the movable aw, so as to turn freely on'said pivot as a fulcrum G is the thumb lever which, as shown, con-c The thumb lever, preferably, has-a oint. linob a at the end for more conveniently working the same for settin the clamp on the jaws or turning it off 0 them with the thumb ofthe same hand which grasps the handle The front ed s of the jaws are referabl beveled or t inned down as seen est in ig. ,3 so as not to interfere ,with" or rub a must, the strop when the edge of the b ade rests in contact-therewith, as when strop ing the blade.

To ut. t le'blade in the holder, assilmin the la ter to be closed the o oration shoal be as follows: Take t e too by the handle in the hand with thethumb 9n the knob a,

. press the thumb lever in the direction rethe fixed jaw with the ho eslin the blade on 1 quired to throw the clamp 05 of the jaws and into the position relatively to the movable jaw, which is shown in Fig. 2' then bringing the thumb upon the part i1 just outside the pivot e swing the movable jaw I) into the osition relatively to the fixed jaw seen in ig. 2, then lacethe blade on the pins 11'; then, wth the thumb still on the i part E swing the movable jaw back into proper adjustment so that holes d will register with thepins b of the fixed jaw; and now asp the extreme end of the jaws with the ngers of the other hand and press them together upon the blade and thumb the clamp into p ace on the jaws by throwing the thumb lever back to its position i seen in Fig. 1.

All dan er of cutting the fingers in setting the c ampon the aws when the blade is between them is obviated through the instrumentality of the thumb-lever, adapted to work in conjunction with the handle and l other arts, in the manner shown and de scribed? i What I claim anddesire to secure by Let- 1 ters Patent is: i

1. A holder for safety-razor blades, comprising a handle provided with a pair of plate-like jaws, adapted to spring apart slightly and to embrace a razor blade in combination with a slotted tubular clamp, adapted to fit over the rear edges of the jaws, and a lever attached to the clamp, the

ever being pivoted to one of the jaws, and

adapted to set the clamp on the jaws, as

specified 2. A holder for safety razor blades, comprising a handle, a jawfixed relatively to the handle, a jaw pivot d to the fixed jaw near its connection with the handle and movable relatively to the handle, a clamp i junction with the part D as specified.

(iEUllU l THIN Hill.

Witnesses E. A. Axnnasox, Amman \V. \VALsoN. 

